driving to church none the less one morning.pulled up to a RR crossing where it T’s into another road just on the other side of teh crossing with a stop sign. there is enough room for one car and one car only on the other side of the tracks. common sense tells you not to stop on train tracks. well with one car already on the other side waiting on a clearing to pull out, the guy infront of me pulls out and stop right in the middle of the tracks. so natually, i give the train horn a few quick blast.
i have NEVER seen anyone look for a way off track so quickly in my entire life. he was looking every direction he could for a way off. i was behind him, a car in front of him he had nowhere to go. i can’t remember when i had laughed so hard, but i can bet he will never stop on the tracks again.
Yeah we’ve got a set of tracks like that in my town, but they are doubles cuz we’re close to a switch. Now I found another reason to get some horns … heheheheheheheh.
i almost caused an accident before like this…it was funny at first but things could have gotten real ugly…i also heard its a felony given to u by the FRA if u honk a horn near a train crossin…can someone verify?
never heard of anyone being ticketed for this, let alone a felony. though in certain parts of my town near tracks there are “no train horn signs”, meant for the trains themselves since the tracks run right through a down town residential area, and you can be ticked there easily.
not sure? i hit the two sets of shockers i have on my 02 durango , 10 feet away from the tracks near my home, and this is notheastside, one car turned right. the car right in front of me the pasenger knowing that they couln’t move couse thier was a car in front of them and they wear on the tracks, opend the door place his foot out stood up on the street looked around, sceard as hell!! my guess was he was going to bail the car.lol that was so funny then i still looked around for cops, just in case?
I did this a few days ago. the 3 cars dangerously close to the tracks had some very frightened people inside. I really don’t understand why anyone would even chance stopping on the tracks. Crazy…